Factors Affecting the Quality of Education for Elementary Schools

• Main Authors: Leou, Lih Lin, 柳麗玲
• Other Authors: Paul S. C. HSU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62662686441251362506

博士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 教育政策與管理研究所 === 95 === Background– In the real world, life is complex, full of twists and turns. No one has the ability to predict what will happen in life. In the education world, teaching is complicated, multi-dimensional and creative. No one can easily evaluate the effectiveness of teaching. Education, like many other things, involves a great deal of responsibility and value. The goal to maximize educational value leads to continuous improvement on the quality of education. Therefore, the continuous development of education quality becomes the competitive strategy in which organizations compete, challenge, and innovate. Purpose – Elementary school is the fundamental of education. Improving education quality has always been the main focus for schools. The goal of this research is to discover how organizations will compete with each other by looking at the problems we face in our education system today and how we can solve those problems. Design/methodology/approach – This research is consisted of quantitative investigation and qualitative methodology. The quantitative investigation looks at the research goal, expert interview, and cultural studies to create “Factors Affecting the Quality of Education for Elementary Schools Questionnaire”. The objects of study were school teachers, directors, and principals randomly sampled from Taoyuan County, Taipei County , Taipei City, Keelung city, Yilan County . A total of 50 schools were chosen and 594 questionnaires were given out. With a return-ratio of 90%, 537 surveys were returned and 513 of them were completed correctly. The questionnaires were validated by internal uniform analysis first. They are again validated by the factor analysis. Finally, SEM was used to confirm the validity of the supposition between factors. The qualitative investigation was done by 3 years of field study at various schools by teaching or performing administrative duties in order to investigate the difference in education quality between schools in different sizes. Findings – from the quantitative study: School intellectual capital, educational quality management and educational behaviors are positively related to educational quality. School intellectual capital is positively related to educational behaviors and educational quality management. Educational quality management is positively related to educational behaviors. This paper defines high quality education in elementary school includes:” student achievement excellent to display”, “parents Trustworthiness”, and “high-quality school image”. Findings from the qualitative study support an educational quality features configuration with a maximizing education value (exceeding customer’s expectations, Quality as zero errors in education process (can examine the variable), education and experience it for exceptional culture (conformity of educational requirement) value addition in education transformation (Rapid transfer), Conformance of education output to planned goals (quality enhancement) Conclusion/Originality/value –The dimensions of quality in an elementary school including quality policy(Policy for education, the plan of the school) , quality goal (educational purpose , concrete index ), quality planning (educational program, student activity), quality controlling (monitoring and control, measurement for education), quality management (The plan is carried out, service management), quality assurance(education is safe, student's achievement), quality enhancement(education value-added, parent trustworthiness ), quality development (educational research , paradigms construct). The Influence of educational quality factors in a primary school, this research conclusion, in order that “the school intellectual capital”, “educational quality management” and “the educational work behavior” of proposition. The dimensions of school intellectual capital draw together “teacher's ability”, “ principal's ability”, “public managers ability” and “rapid transfer ability”. The Influence of educational quality management factors that consists of “teaching and environment”, “dynamic change and performance”, “qualitative monitoring and control” three phases. The educational work behaviors combines “job characteristics” and “educational work behavior” two phases. Other influence factors include: Ideology and notion drop, the policy for education and financial wide gap, the leadership style is not accorded with expected, the Staff development and progresses greatly slowly, students participate in the attitude and lax , social change and culture solve construct , multi-faceted family with have too high expectations, setting lower administrative quality threshold, course support and serving break off relations , teaching resource allocation factor such as being enough. Results, this text but also proposes the educational value maximization path directed to the personnel, educational responsible institution and further research are offered. Follow-up study of the school at the same time put forward the concrete suggestion on improving the educational relevant issue of quality.